Tab. 5640. 

 DALECHAMPIA Roezliana. 



RoezVs Dalechampia. 



Nat. Ord. Euphorbiace^;. — Moncecia Polyandrta. 



Gen. Char. Flores monoici, £ et $ , involucro compresso 2-pbyllo 2- 

 sexuali inclusi. Calycis J lacinise 4-5, valvatse; ? 5-12, imbricatse. JPetala 

 utriusquc sexus 0. Discus fl. £ 0; fl. $ ssepius obsoletus. Stamina cen- 

 tralia, in receptaculo convexo sita ; antherse 2-rimosae, loculi longitrorsum 

 adnati. Ovarii loculi 1-ovulati. Capsula 3-4-cocca. Semina ecaruncu- 

 lata ; cotyledones complanatse. — Frutices tropiei, scepissime volubiles. Folia 

 alterna, petiolata, penninervia v. palminervia, indivisa lobata v. ao-foliolata. 

 Stipule 2. Flores axillares, pedunculati, bracteis foliaceis albis pallidis v. 

 coloratis 2-stipulatis inclusi. Involucella $ B-Jlora, $ oz-flora, latere supe- 

 riore Jloribus sterilibus carnoso-ceraceis pallidis multicristatis aucta. 



Dalechampia Roezliana ; caule erecto, foliis sessilibus v. brevissime pe- 

 tiolatis obovato-oblongis lanceolatis spathulatisve longe acumiuatis 

 integerrimis v. supra medium grosse obtuse serratis basi angustatis 

 cordato-2-lobis, stipulis ovato-triaugularibus, ovario sericeo-pubesceute, 

 stylo gracillimo, stigmate obtuso. 



Vae. a. rosea ; involueri foliolis grosse dentatis serratisve pulchre roseis. 



Dalechampia Eoezliana, var. a. rosea. Mueller Aryan, in DC. Prod v 15 

 p. 1233. 



A truly superb plant, one of the noblest introduced for 

 many years, comparable only with the Bougainvillwce amongst 

 those of its habit, and exceeding these in the size and clear 

 rose-colour of its broad membranous veined involucral leaves. 

 The specimen here figured was flowered in March of the pre- 

 sent year by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, who procured it from 

 Messrs. Van Houtte, of Ghent. It is a native of Vera Cruz, 

 and, according to its first describer, Dr. Mueller Argan (in 

 De Candolle's ' Prodromus '), living plants were sent from 

 Mexico to the Botanic Garden of Zurich by its discoverer, 

 M. Eoezl. Mueller further has another variety, p viridis, 

 distinguished by its subentire leaves, and greenish or green- 

 ish-red involucral leaves, which he states to be cultivated by 



MAT 1st, 1867. 



